Word: dismalness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Except for two individual placewinners, Harvard had a dismal performance. The Crimson totaled 11 points on the day to finish 15th out of 29 teams...
...recent report on Minority Faculty Recruitment by the Harvard Minority Students Alliance demonstrated the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' dismal lack of any effort to recruit more minority faculty. The departments of Arts, Chemistry, and Biology--only 16 History, and Biology made 11 job searches and received 721 applications in 1986-87. Only four of these applications were from minorities, indicating that these departments make almost no effort to recruit minority applications, let alone to hire minorities...
Duke's bold and progressive plan came after weeks of mounting pressure from the student body for an increase in the school's minority faculty. At the same time, activists occupied school buildings at Williams College and the University of Vermont in protest over those schools' dismal records in the hiring of minority faculty. Penn State was the site of similar activity...
Furthermore those in our group who knew other Soviet citizens--primarily refusniks, Jews who have been refused exit visas, and nonconformists--saw another side of Soviet life and heard a different view of Gorbachev's reforms. Where the students were optimistic, many others saw a dismal future. One woman whose husband spent 15 years in a Siberian labor camp described the Soviet premier as "a man in search of power." And a long-time refusnik said, "Russia just isn't made for democracy. History proves it." When asked what she thought about the current situation, one woman abruptly answered...
...Assembly to stop investigations of human-rights abuses. Above all, ARENA has vowed to take a tougher approach to defeating El Salvador's guerrillas, going so far as to declare that it may send home some 55 U.S. military advisers who have worked to improve the Salvadoran army's dismal human-rights record...